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The cost of emotional investing can be severe. Traders stay in trades longer when they’re sure a company they have an emotional attachment to will turn things around, even when all evidence is to the contrary.

We simply don’t make good decisions when our emotions are running high, and the ups and downs of the market are more than enough to put you in a state where you’re not making good decisions with your money. And the last thing you want to do is subject your money to the whims of your emotions.

That’s not investing – that’s gambling.

On Thursday, I told you that orders are one of the best ways to remove your emotions from your trade plan.

Today, I’m show you a few more orders to help you maximize your returns and protect your investing capital…

In the world of investing generally – and options trading in particular – it is not only important to know when to get in and get out of a trade, it is also important to know how to do so.

Whether you still call trades into your broker, or enter them into an online platform, or use proprietary software to make your trades, the orders you give to your broker are incredibly important.

Retail investors used to just buy stocks at the market and wait for them to rise in value. But in 2015, it’s not enough to just buy stocks or shares of a mutual fund and sit on them for decades – this is not your father’s market. Things have changed a great deal in the last 25 years.

Thanks to computers and the proliferation of the Internet, the markets move incredibly quickly, and you need to be prepared for whatever happens next.

That means tailoring your orders to fit your trades, and having them into your broker ahead of time.

Today, I’m going to show you how you can maximize your profits (and minimize your losses) with just a few tweaks to your orders.